New Tax Rate

We have all been struggling with New Hanover County’s increase in tax values. Here is some of the news that we have been waiting for on the rate.  

County
Tax Rate: The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners has approved a $273.7 million General Fund budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. The approved budget calls [...]

Coldwell Banker President Jim Gillespie Visits New Wilmington Office

Wednesday June 13, 2007 will be remembered by many in the Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty family a special day for years to come.  Coldwell Banker President Jim Gillespie traveled from New Jersey to help

Sea
Coast officially open our new office.  In a very special tribute, Sea Coast President Tim Milam and Coldwell Banker President Jim [...]

Wilmington Real Estate Market Update

With the weather warming outside the real estate market in
Wilmington is beginning to heat up.  Our company, Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Realty, produced 81 contracts for a total of $19 million dollars for the week of June 4-8.  We also successfully closed 70 properties for a total of $18.2 million during last week.  A [...]

EASY BEING GREEN

BILLY BILLY GREEN SMITH, A LOCAL COMMERCIAL BAKER FOR FNB SOUTHEAST IS DOING WHAT SOME MAY THINK IS THE UNKTHINKABLE.   HE RIDES HIS BIKE TO WORK EVERY TUESDAY BACK AND FORTH TO WORK IN THE SWEALTERING SUMMER HEAT.  BILLY LIVES OFF ROGERSVILLE ROADAND RIDES EACH TUESDAY TO HIS OFFICE WHICH IS LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM [...]

PPD CELEBRATES OFFICIAL OPENING OF GLOBAL HEADQUARTERS

The 1700 employees of PPD now occupy the new global headquarters located here in downtown
Wilmington.  The new headquarters has the capacity to accommodate 2,000 employees.  Dr. Fred Eshelamn, CEO of PPD, expects to reach the buildings capacity with their continued growth.  When they do reach 2000 employees, PPD has plenty of room to expand [...]

Single Women

Did you know that 1 out of every 5 home buyers is a Single Woman?
With more and more single women buying and selling real estate, Coldwell Banker Real Estate Corporation unveiled a marketing program targeting this demographic.  The initiative features a handbook entitled, “A Wise Woman’s Guide to Buying Your Own Home,” which can be [...]

We are now in. The Wilmington office is open!

We all are very excited about our brand new office across from the main entrance to Mayfaire. We have over 26,000 square feet. This was a result of the merging of 2 offices (our Landfall Branch and our Oleander Branch). The building is shared with FNB and Guillford Mills. My office is now [...]